The Quakers (3-3) open Ivy League play Friday when they host reigning Ivy champion Harvard (3-2-1). Penn missed out on an automatic NCAA bid last season by finishing a game behind the Crimson. Harvard was the only Ivy team to beat Penn, 2-0.

The termination means that employees at the banking and financial services company will be hired knowing they will stay at the company for more than two years.

Among the 61 freshmen running for positions within student government, 23 students are competing for eight available spots on the UA while 11 are vying for the position of Class Board president.

Skimmer Fest will combine Skimmer’s emphasis on athletics and school spirit with Fall Fest’s display of Penn’s diverse student organizations.

Police officers and volunteer clergy members are going door-to-door discussing with residents ways to improve neighborhood security.

The schedule says the Penn women’s soccer team is only six games into its season, but the Quakers are preparing to begin what amounts to a high-stakes, seven-game playoff.

Elizabeth Hitti’s goal with just over five minutes remaining gave Penn a 4-3 win over La Salle and the oh-so-desperate boost it needed heading into its Ivy home opener against Harvard on Saturday.

For the last three years, the number ‘12’ has carried weight with the Penn soccer team. Thomas Brandt wore the number during both years of his captaincy, and after Brandt’s graduation, junior Jonny Dolezal took over the number as well as the captaincy.

Wednesday night at Delaware, the Quakers (5-5) defeated the Blue Hens (3-10), 3-2 (22-25, 23-25, 25-21, 26-24, 15-13), winning the final three sets to secure a .500 record entering conference play.

Rave Cinemas, located on the corner of 40th and Walnut streets, swarmed with Penn students gathered to catch the free advanced screening of the musical comedy “Pitch Perfect” last night.

A college education is not just about academics, it also has a lot to do with learning from your community. It should invite you to think about your role in the neighborhood, the city and the world. All you have to do is take a walk.

Pitchfork isn’t offensive. It’s hilarious.

During On-Campus Recruiting, many become more conscious of the undergraduate school listed at the top of the resume.

Registration will be open this weekend for preceptorials, non-credit, non-graded classes that normally meet once or twice a semester. VIDEO: Word on the Walk – Preceptorials

A dozen classes across Penn’s campus are piloting a new system, called the Course Absence Report, to facilitate communication between instructors and students regarding long-term absences.

Professor Mary France Berry gave a one minute lecture on “What Would the Founders Think: Political Polarization and the 2012 Election” as a part of the 60-Second lecture series.

Nancy Cox, a 1971 Nursing graduate who co-founded the University City Arts League and the University City Swim Club in the 1960s with her husband, died on Aug. 28 after suffering a stroke. She was 81.